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FGM education resources for health professionals

Maternal Health for CALD Women Resource

eCALD Supplementary Resources

  • FGM Resource Kit, 2011
    An FGM resource package for New Zealand health and child protection professionals including; FGM Illustration Sheets; Female Genital Mutilation in New Zealand: Understanding and Responding handbook; FGM Clinical Care Guidelines; FGM Child Protection Recommended Guiding Principles; FGM Pamphlets for Health and Child Protection Professionals and Communities.
  • FGM Clinical Care Antenatal, Labour & Birth and Postnatal Guidelines, 2009
    Guidelines for antenatal, labour and birth and postnatal care
    Code: FGM-Res-16
    PDF download available via: http://www.fgm.co.nz/assets/Resources/fgm-antenatal-labour-and-birth-and-postnatal-guidelines-2009.pdf
  • FGM Deinfibulation Guidelines, 2009
    Guidelines for deinfibulation
    Code: FGM-Res-17
    PDF download DF download available via: http://www.fgm.co.nz/assets/Resources/fgm-deinfibulation-guidelines-2009.pdf
  • FGM Teaching Module, 2009
    FGM background information for nursing, midwifery and medical students (28pg)
    Code: FGM-Res-18
    PDF download via: http://www.fgm.co.nz/assets/Resources/fgm-teaching-module-2009.pdf
  • FGM Information for Health Professionals pamphlet, 2004
    FGM health information for health professionals
    Code: FGM-P-04
  • Issues for Clinical Practice video, (available on loan only)
    Video exploring the complications and clinical management of FGM
    Code: FGM-Vid-02
  • Female Genital Mutilation in New Zealand: Understanding and Responding handbook, 2004
    A comprehensive 100 pg handbook for health and child protection professionals working with women affected by FGM
    Code: FGM-Res-07

This video presents a Somalian woman presenting late in labour and a midwife discovers she has undergone FGM.

How can situations like this be avoided?

This video presents a BEST PRACTICE SCENARIO demonstrating how a midwife approach FGM in a culturally sensitive manner with a Somalian woman during her first visit using questions from the Cultural Assessment Tool (B).